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Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:33:40 -0500If you're tired of the endless circling luggage belt of reboots Hollywood is pumping out on an hourly basis, we've got bad news: They've been doing this for longer than you think. Even when you're watching a non-sequel, that doesn't mean the characters are all-new. In most any movie you can usually spot vague character influences, but a lot of the time actors are straight-up playing fictional characters that are actually real-life people. We've come up with a few of these personhood-remakes and listed them below.

1. Snow White was traced from an actress

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Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:30:10 -0400Sure, we know a lot of Pokemon are based on animals, but some of those Pokemon are a lot MORE based on animals than you'd realize. Like, actually based on very specific species and containing very specific traits and features unique to certain types of animals. Here are 14 examples that will make you re-think everything you thought you knew about Pokemon.

Or, at least, make you go "Huh. Neat."

1. Poliwag is based on translucent tadpoles

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Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:58:46 -0400Redditor plasma2002 had a brilliant idea occur to him - and $60 spent on Amazon later, his project was complete: real life Mario Kart battles, via remote-control cars, some knives, and a few balloons.

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Thu, 18 Sep 2014 15:38:38 -0400/post/68046http://www.dorkly.com/post/68046/man-dresses-as-sonic-races-a-train-delights-everyone
Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:41:43 -0400/post/68127http://www.dorkly.com/post/68127/if-every-accident-was-caused-by-mario
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Mon, 01 Sep 2014 21:23:39 -0400Ever run into a place that looked exactly like something out of the movies? And then it so happened you had a picture of the movie you were thinking of? And then held it up, framing it in such a way to make it look like it fits into the real world location you're staring at?

Well, if you haven't, you're in luck - because someone else did it for you!